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Little Pakistan’s Mission Man
Shahid Khan has two faces. In Little Pakistan, he goes about his day-to-day life blending in with his south central Brooklyn neighbors, stopping to shake hands or nod an as-salaam-alaikum to those he...
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Let’s talk about sex (and race, and gender, and intersectionality)
N’jaila Rhee is many things — a writer; a phone sex operator, web cam girl, and former exotic dancer; a nerd; and a self-described “Blasian bitch.” A native of New Jersey and a Rutgers University...
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When Home is Where the Battle Is
I exhale the smoke from my cigarette before throwing it on pavement on 135th Street, as cool water from a rusty fire hydrant splashes on my feet. I’m surprised none of the New York City police officers...
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Bay Ridge Loses a Primary but Gains a Movement
“When we hope for what we do not see – we wait for it with patience.” — Fr. Kader El-Yateem Fr. Khader El-Yateem:...
View ArticleJust When You Thought You Were Safe
The Trump administration has announced its plan to reopen thousands of previously closed deportation cases. This means that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is gearing to restart...
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Malcolm Lives in Harlem
“We come as descendants of our ancestors. We come occupying a place in time and space in order to honor that which is best within ourselves. We come as elders. We come as children. We come as youth.”...
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Shaping a World Without Domestic Violence
Early in the morning on January 1, 2018, New York City suffered its first homicide of the year. Twenty-six-year-old Stacey Singh was found stabbed to death in her own home in Richmond Hill, Queens, on...
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Mapping Displacement and Resistance in Sunset Park
Teresa Gutierrez’s cadences in Spanish pulsated through the television screen as she described the changes happening in Sunset Park, her neighborhood in Brooklyn. “The rents are so high that our...
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Where South Asian Men Process Trauma
Against a backdrop of Bengali folk dancers, bhangra dance lessons and panipuri-eating contests, a handful of men in their twenties approached other South Asian men, of different builds, sizes and ages....
View ArticleFred Ho’s Radical Imagination
Remembrance is always constituted by forgetting. My fear is that Fred Ho will be remembered for his bold aesthetic style and his swinging avant-garde Afro-Asian music, but forgotten for his...
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